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A Man of Many Parts
The wide reach of Frank Davis's achievements and travels pretty much necessitates a search engine, and he tends to punctuate his sentences with the smiling exhortation…
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Song of Herself
Ursula K. Le Guin has said that her father, Alfred Kroeber, studied real cultures, while she made them up. Indeed, many of the writer's most celebrated novels are…
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Rock-a-Bye Baby
I knew parenting would be trouble even before it began. Back when my wife, Beth, and I were just starting to think about having a child of our own…
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The Kids Are Alright
If you're reading this, you were once a child. We won't all become parents, or get married, or live to a ripe old age, but we've all experienced childhood…
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To Forgive and Forget
Having a parent with Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia can be a painfully long and sad way to say good-bye. It also reaffirms…
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Climbing the Spiral Staircase
My parents met in 1941 as editors at the University of California Press. To my mother's annoyance, the press manager assigned my father a desk…
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Features
Song of Herself
Ursula K. Le Guin reflects on her Berkeley roots, parenting, and the writing life.
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Rock-a-Bye Baby
Coming to grips with the nature of nurture.
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The Kids Are Alright
Historian Paula Fass says parents today have less to worry about than ever before. So why are they so anxious?
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To Forgive and Forget
A son confronts his birth and his mother's death.
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Climbing the Spiral Staircase
A son reflects on the home his parents made and the legacy they left behind.
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Lab + Field
Time Enough
Berkeley scientists plan to build the first ever space-time crystal.
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SIMCITY
A Berkeley professor brings urban development to life.
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Antiquity Goes Online
The Department of Classics launches an open-access journal.
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Locked Up
A research group seeks to understand whom our criminal justice system fails, and why.
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Arts + Letters
In a Bind
Matt Werner talks about the politics of hand-binding his book.
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Free Speech
The Unretiring Chancellor
Robert Birgeneau looks ahead to teaching, research, and redesigning the public university.
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Far Flung
The Empty Quarter
The vast, bucolic, north end of California is often overlooked.
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Taste Test
A Squirrelly Proposal
Tonight's dinner could be scampering right in front of you.
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Sather Gate
A Man of Many Parts
Best known for his biochemical research, Alumnus of the Year Frank Davis has turned his hand to a variety of tasks.
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Out of the Gate
A Moment's Grace.
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Latest Issue - Spring 2013
Growing Up
Stories of childhood, parenting, and old age with Ursula K. Le Guin, Paula Fass, Kenneth Brower, et al. Read the latest »
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